https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/u...gbr/index.html
I think Johnson'S Brexit plan needed a strong EU attention focus on the issue, on which he then could surf his Brexit agenda. But the wave has been collapsed by Corona and now he has nothing to surf on. TheEU has issues on its mind that are more relevant for the EU members. This lack of attention focus on the UK is somethign that takes all wind out of the UK's sail, as far as its intended future relation the the continent was concerned. EU members simply do not care anymore. And Johnson has nothing anymore to use for blackmailing them to enforce their interest or attention.
Brexit simply is not much relevant for the EU anymore. The new terrible EU fiscal regime - open destruction of the Masstricht treaty, collectivisation of debts and the ECB now openly financing states nd no longer hiding it that it does, and the union collectively making new debts - renders the costs of an unregulated Brexit irrelevant.
Its a fiscal-political nightmare what they have done in those four days. Worst it could not have gotten.
The illusion the EU bought with this desaster summit, will last only shortly. But they will be enough to make it impossible for the UK to keep the EU busy with thgreats or intidmiation attempts. That all has become irrelevant, thanks to a tiny virus.